Removable frame for motor or like vehicles



March 9 1926.

G. BAEHR REMOVABLE FRAME FOR MOTOR OR LIKE VEHICLES Filed March 20, 1924 Patented Mar. 9, 1926.

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REMOVABLE FRAME FOR MOTOR OR LIKE VEHICLES.

Application filed March 20, 1924. Serial No. 700,697.

or other frames for motor or like vehicles.

One object of the said invention more specifically relates to a constructional form of a means for fastening glazed frames characterized more especially by the fact that in the path in which the fastening member travels there is mounted an actuating stop, preferably in the form of a ducks beak, made solid with an oscillating lever mounted upon a pivot placed at a suitable point along its length and carrying at its other extremity a'second stop guide automatically upon the outer face of the panel to be bolted with a force and amplitude depending upon the position of the point of oscillation of the lever.

In the accompanying drawing which embody the invention,

Figure 1 is a general view of a form of construction of a device for maintaining removable glasses mounted upon a vehicle;

Figures 2 and 8 are respectively a front view and side elevation of the arrangement of bolting or locking stops; and

Figures 4 and 5 are sectional end views of two examples of a suitable construction for the stops.

In the constructional form according to the drawing, in the door-case 1 there is made a recess 2, a lever 3 for general vertical guiding being adapted to oscillate upon a pivot l mounted at a suitable point along its length, preferably closer to the lower end than to the upper end.

This lever carries at its lower end a stop 5 having an inclined or oblique face 6, similar to that of a ducks beak, directed towards the outside of the vehicle and continued by a lip 7 of suitable length. The rabbeting of the door-case 1 is preferably notched or cut in a suitable manner in order that the lip 7 of the stop 5 may be able to retract therein, whilst permitting of the support of the frame directly upon the rabbeting. At its upper end the rod 3 carries a second stop 8, the inner face of which has a sloping part 9 of lesser inclination than the surface 6 which is thus in tended to bear upon the outer face of the panels of plate-glass with a pressure that can be regulated.

A recoil spring 10 constantly tends to bring the stops into the position shown in Figure 3, the upper stop 8 being, retracted into the door-case l whilst the stop 5 projects from said door-case in such ,a way that its duck-bill surface 6 is located in the path of the extreme vertical edge of the movable panel.

In such an arrangement when on changing an open coach-body into a closed one, the glass panels are placed in position in the body and in placing them in position, the extreme end of a panel will bear upon the face 6 driving in the direction of the arrow in Figure 3 the corresponding camstop 5. During this movement the lever 3 pivots round the axis 4 and displaces the upper cam-stop 8 in a direction opposite to the movement of the lower cam-stop 5 so that, in proportion, as the panel forces itself into its rabbeting, the upper stop 8 bears with its face 9 upon the outer edge of said panel whilst exerting an effective pressure thereupon.

When the lip 7 of the cam-stop 5 engages in the recess provided for it in the corresponding rabbeting, the frame 13 will be -moved into engagement with the face 9 of v the cam 8 and forcibly held in engagement therewith so as to rigidly maintain the frame in position and prevents any shaking or vibration during travel.

On removing the glazed frame so as to again transform the coach-body into an uncovered carriage, the recoil spring 10 returns the parts into the position shown in Figure 3- ready to be operated at the time of a fresh manipulation of the glazed frame.

It will easily be seen that by varying the position of the pivot a on the bar 3 the blocking or locking of the glazed frame can be secured with a suitably determined energy whilst, by giving the rod-3 a more or less marked curve, a regulation will be effected of thecoming into action of the upper cam-stop 8.

This cam-stop 8 may bear either against the edge of the glazed frame,-'as in Figure or upon a bevelled in Figure 4..

The lower cam-stop 5 may be so disposed as to determine its operation not by the glass frame but by the carriage door itself so as to determine the displacement of the locking cam-stop 8, not by the glass frame but by the carriage door itself which presents a much more important mass, so as to effect a more energetic locking or fastening of the glass.

What I claim is:

1. In a transformable vehicle body having amovable,- frame or panel, a -movab1e member adapted to engage the frame at one side and to be operated by said frame or panel, a second movable member adapted to engage the frame or panelat the side opposite that engaged by the first member, and means for operating the second member part of said frame as from the first member to cause it to engage the said frame or panel.

2. In a transformable vehicle body having a movable frame or panel, .a movable cam stop provided with a lip for engaging one side of the frame or panel, said stop being adapted to be operated by the frame or panel, a second cam stop adapted to engage panel; a pivoted and spring pressed lever to one 'endof which the said step is secured,

and a second cam stop secured to the other end of said lever and adapted to engage the side of the frame opposite that engaged by the first stop.

In testimony I have hereunto set my hand at Paris, France, this 7 th day of March. 1924-.

GUSTAVE BAEHR. 

